Fetal short femur length in the second trimester and the outcome of pregnancy

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-85

  Todros, T ^a   Massarenti, I ^a   Gaglioti, P ^a   Biolcati, M ^a   Botta, G ^b   De Felice, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANEUPLOIDY; BONE DYSPLASIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMUR MALFORMATION; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 1242351807     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.00015.x     Document Type: Review

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